The United States Team has four All-Americans, but I think their hopes hinge on the performance of the English Ladies.
Remember how I wrote that no team has won the international medal that hasn't also won the women's team medal?
Consider that England, who leads Korea and the U.S. at 25-under, has gotten 21 of those birdies from the dynamic duo of Daniel Willett and Gary Boyd (who are running away with the men's title at this point) and only four from Namoi Edwards (pictured) and Elizabeth Bennet. If Boyd and Willett come back to Earth, or Edwards and Bennet fail to make clutch par saves like they did yesterday, I think we may have a new leader by the back nine.
Of course, if Edwards and Bennet get hot this thing could be over by the back nine.
It's a fact that the girls carry the team in this championship. Women's amateur golf's international talent pool isn't as deep as the boys. You can't have just one gender go nuts and win this thing.
Then again, the England men are going really nuts.
But that's why I gotta pick the U.S. or Korea in this thing. That 8-under performance by the American girls showed me they've broken out of their funk, and the boys haven't really clicked. They've thrown some strokes away in all three rounds. Korea is just incredible, it's like they're already professionals the way they handle the pressure. Yesterday on 18 I saw Bi-O drain a CLUTCH 12-footer for par when his partner was in the drink, putting for double. They had a sub-standard day yesterday, expect that to change.
In any case it'll be fun to watch.
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